AMD
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
The Cezanne APU: six Zen 3 cores plus a 7-CU Vega iGPU that plays esports titles at 1080p with no graphics card at all. The trade for that monolithic design is half the L3 cache and PCIe 3.0, so it is a small-form-factor, HTPC or no-GPU build chip rather than a gaming CPU for a discrete card.
Pros
- 7-CU Vega iGPU at up to 1900 MHz handles CS2, Valorant, Dota and Rocket League at 1080p
- Full six-core Zen 3 CPU performance, not a cut-down mobile part
- Monolithic die means low idle power and tight memory latency — good for mini-ITX and HTPC
- Wraith Stealth cooler included, so a complete build needs no GPU and no cooler purchase
- 65 W TDP / 88 W PPT works on nearly any AM4 board with a BIOS update
Cons
- 16 MB L3 instead of 32 MB — noticeably slower than a 5600 once you add a real GPU
- PCIe 3.0 only, so a Gen 4 SSD or modern GPU runs at half link speed
- Vega graphics are old and depend heavily on fast dual-channel DDR4
- iGPU carves its framebuffer out of system RAM
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
General
- Announced
- 2021
- Socket
- AM4
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 65 W
- Max turbo power
- 88 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- Yes
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 0
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 3.9 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.4 GHz
- L2 cache
- 3 MB
- L3 cache
- 16 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon Graphics (7 CU Vega)
- iGPU clock
- 1,900 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-3200
- Max memory
- 128 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 3
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 24
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,850
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 8,300
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,470
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 10,800
- PassMark
- 19,900
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G earns an Inno Score of 42.9/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The Cezanne APU: six Zen 3 cores plus a 7-CU Vega iGPU that plays esports titles at 1080p with no graphics card at all. The trade for that monolithic design is half the L3 cache and PCIe 3.0, so it is a small-form-factor, HTPC or no-GPU build chip rather than a gaming CPU for a discrete card.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 4.4 GHz · Socket: AM4
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-10700K, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel Core i9-9900K — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.